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[GH-ISSUE #829] New installation, windows server problem #658
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Originally created by @RealLordK1 on GitHub (Aug 10, 2020).
Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/debauchee/barrier/issues/829
Operating Systems
Server: Windows 10 (2004)
Client: Linux Mint 20 Ulyana
Barrier Version
2.3.3-release-3395cca9
Steps to reproduce bug
Every time I launch the server, I have an error telling me that the temporary configuration file required to start barrier can not be written. Trying to change the conf file path did not help.
Other info
Here is the log with "configure interactively" :
[2020-08-10T13:18:18] INFO: starting server
[2020-08-10T13:18:19] INFO: config file:
[2020-08-10T13:18:19] INFO: log level: INFO
[2020-08-10T13:18:19] INFO: service command updated
[2020-08-10T13:18:19] INFO: starting new process as privileged user
[2020-08-10T13:18:19] INFO: drag and drop enabled
barriers.exe: no configuration available
[2020-08-10T13:18:20] ERROR: failed to launch, error: process immediately stopped
[2020-08-10T13:18:20] INFO: backing off, wait=2s, failures=1
[2020-08-10T13:18:22] INFO: starting new process as privileged user
[2020-08-10T13:18:22] INFO: drag and drop enabled
barriers.exe: no configuration available
Here is the log with a conf file in another path :
[2020-08-10T13:19:28] INFO: starting server
[2020-08-10T13:19:28] INFO: config file: K:/Téléchargements/conf.sgc
[2020-08-10T13:19:28] INFO: log level: INFO
[2020-08-10T13:19:28] INFO: service command updated
[2020-08-10T13:19:29] INFO: starting new process as privileged user
[2020-08-10T13:19:29] INFO: drag and drop enabled
barriers.exe: no configuration available
[2020-08-10T13:19:30] ERROR: failed to launch, error: process immediately stopped
[2020-08-10T13:19:30] INFO: backing off, wait=2s, failures=1
[2020-08-10T13:19:32] INFO: starting new process as privileged user
[2020-08-10T13:19:32] INFO: drag and drop enabled
barriers.exe: no configuration available
@Colanth commented on GitHub (Aug 15, 2020):
No response yet? Add another Windows 10 19041-191206-1406 installation of Barrier 2.3.3 release-d-186548a with exactly the same error message. (Also tried making it writable with no results.) Clients on Ubuntu and Raspbian seem to set up properly, but now I have 2 keyboards, 2 mice and a VNC to Rasberry. It sure would be nice (even worth a contribution) to get this working on all 3 computers.
@jsantosdias commented on GitHub (Sep 11, 2020):
I have the same issue:
"barriers.exe: no configuration available"
What can I do?
@jsantosdias commented on GitHub (Sep 11, 2020):
So figured out that the problem is windows username has ã in it. So it is difficult to change user folder name in windows 10. Could Barrier support this kind of character?
@DigitalFunk commented on GitHub (Sep 17, 2020):
@jsantosdias - Unfortunately many windows applications have trouble with accented characters.
After looking at it with Process Monitor it seems like Barrier is only using your username when it is looking up the path to the SSL fingerprints (in %LOCALAPPDATA%), so a possible workaround may be disabling SSL? (not recommended).
As this can happen with many other applications as well, I recommend saving yourself some trouble and changing your Windows username and user folder. It's not as hard as you might think, it should only take a couple of minutes (see video guide here)
@jsantosdias commented on GitHub (Sep 17, 2020):
Thank you, DigitalFunk! I did change the folder name, and some functions in windows started working better. Barrier works fine, now, thank you! Only had problem with Outlook, but started all and it's ok! Who could say a ~made such a difference!
@shymega commented on GitHub (Sep 19, 2020):
Closing, Windows doesn't support Unicode in usernames, so we can't fix this. Not our problem, sorry.
@RealLordK1 commented on GitHub (Sep 19, 2020):
My username doesn't use any problematic character (LordK1).
@Colanth commented on GitHub (Sep 19, 2020):
'L' in Unicode would be a "probelematic character". It's the coding, as well as the character. The fact that a character is presented in Unicode makes it a 16 bit datum, not an 8 bit datum.